Mike Perham :sidekiq:

Rubyist, guy behind Sidekiq (npub1pwq…6mkn) and Faktory.

For support, please open a new discussion at https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/discussions.

Personal: Mike Perham (npub1l0h…ce7a)

Sidekiq: https://sidekiq.org
Blog: https://mikeperham.com
Faktory: https://contribsys.com/faktory/

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2026-10-17 17:09:02 UTC

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Many don’t know the context of who you are or what you are speaking of. If one is looking for investment, one creates a pitch deck. You need a pitch with details.

2026-10-15 20:55:49 UTC

Fascinating article, Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby https://blog.julik.nl/2026/10/the-weimar-of-ruby

2026-09-22 15:28:33 UTC

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for me it’s all cold sales email (help with seo, providing leads, etc)

2026-09-22 15:23:20 UTC

So much AI-powered business spam in my inbox. It’s great! 🙄

2026-05-29 15:20:38 UTC

RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044
I'm seeing this with Sidekiq too. Lots of small PRs with minor changes, adding test coverage, fixing edge cases which never occur in practice, etc.
I can't speak to rsync but it's nothing to worry about for Sidekiq (and to be clear, I still do not use any AI at all)
#note1xqj…trjq

2026-05-13 22:12:29 UTC

Towards a safer Timeout API in Ruby.
https://beautifulruby.com/code/tcp-user-timeout
It's a bit of a blunt solution, some sockets may want a 0.1s timeout while others want a 10s timeout. I think a Fiber-local Context API (like Go's but not manually passed around) might be another interesting idea. Maybe I'll prototype something ...

2026-04-14 20:27:29 UTC

I recently cut my first Gem Fellowship check to @npub15z3…0xrp from the @npub17vg…zgca project. He’s in Portland too so we got a pic. Congrats Jared! https://gem.coop/updates/2026-fellowship/
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/116/404/941/222/597/563/original/53895c8837690a81.jpeg

2026-04-01 15:10:49 UTC

RE: https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116326155409620757
Sure, by migrating it to Azure they made it less stable, but don't forget they also migrated the UI to React so it's slower too. Enterprise-ready™!
#note1eg4…f9tn

2026-02-17 20:15:45 UTC

Is there a standard CSS beautifier/formatter tool? I want to diff the CSS rules for a few different pages and need a standard format to make the diff usable.

2026-02-02 19:16:37 UTC

Announcing: the winners of the 2026 Gem Fellowship https://gem.coop/updates/2026-fellowship/ #ruby #oss

2026-01-19 20:13:42 UTC

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but where would I put that page? The wiki directory is an external source so I can't modify it. Maybe a custom deploy step to create output/wiki/index.html?

2026-01-16 19:51:56 UTC

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github pages is serving static content generated by bridgetown.

2026-01-16 19:25:41 UTC

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thank you.
one other thing: for my wiki external source, github uses Home.md as the root wiki page. Is there any way to map/alias that to index.html so I can link "/wiki" instead of "/wiki/Home"?

2026-01-16 18:39:04 UTC

@npub15z3…0xrp I noticed that Markdown headers get a fragment ID on their anchor, but the page does not display a widget link like in GitHub. Is there a way to enable this, so we can easily grab a direct link to the section?
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2026-01-13 17:49:40 UTC

Interesting. Someone (AWS?) is bankrolling a significant effort to build a new ecosystem of Rust-based client libraries focused on Valkey, not Redis.
Their Ruby gem is under development here. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for redis-rb.
https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide-ruby/

2026-01-12 20:06:15 UTC

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yay, that worked! While I have you, do you know if it's possible to support Github's double bracket link format: [[PageTitle]], which is short hand for [PageTitle](PageTitle)?

2026-01-12 20:00:03 UTC

@npub15z3…0xrp It's not clear how to set these options. Can you show an example on the page? https://www.bridgetownrb.com/docs/configuration/markdown#kramdown I want to turn off mark_highlighting since I have a lot of content with "::" (i.e. Ruby class names)

2025-11-20 23:57:44 UTC

Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.

2025-11-16 20:17:03 UTC

Redox (Rust-based OS) looks like it is making great progress.
https://floss.social/@soller/115559953815118184

2025-10-26 16:22:34 UTC

Thanks to @npub1xlx…m8gf for speaking up. We cannot tolerate hateful leaders or our community turns into that Nazi bar. Solidarity means supporting each other, no matter what we look like.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115440948081744562

2025-10-18 16:10:53 UTC

This article does a wonderful job of reminding me why I love Ruby so much. The core language is just so elegant. https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-blocks/

2025-10-10 17:15:02 UTC

Periodic reminder: @npub1adh…8lgh is smearing Andre in public so they can justify their hostile takeover of the rubygems/rubygems repo after the fact.
An actual community-focused organization would have followed the RFC process which was already in progress.

2025-09-28 23:42:56 UTC

This is a fun article. Any time I’m building toward a major release, I always think “what could I remove without too much blowback?” “What config option has lived past its prime?”
Remove complexity if it has little benefit. Sometimes it’s worth nudging people back onto the happy path.
https://limi.net/checkboxes

2025-09-28 15:12:32 UTC

Justin, this is a hit piece on Andre. Lots of quibbling over word choice and reading his actions as poorly as possible. Are you assuming good faith in his actions?
Looking at the last three links, here’s how I would characterize them:
1. A reasonable conversation on committer vs maintainer.
2. The linked commit is old and does not reflect reality or policy today.
3. Removing inactive contributors is normal, companies don’t keep ex-employees on their /about page.
https://mastodon.social/@searls/115282174363254250

2025-09-25 05:33:40 UTC

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2025-09-25 05:09:22 UTC

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the old Ruby together monthly emails from years ago had a detailed spend summary

2025-09-23 16:10:40 UTC

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most of the infra is donated by aws and fastly. RC covers between 12-20k/mo in on-call engineering staff.

2025-09-19 15:31:03 UTC

The unstated reason for this change was that many of the existing Rubygems maintainers have recently quit (including their only full-time engineer) due to RC's continued relationship with DHH.
Since most of the team has walked away, RC has decided to accept a sponsorship guarantee from DHH so they can hire a new team and this is the PR spin of that decision.
I don't see how Ruby Central can be trusted anymore until its Board is publicly elected.
https://ruby.social/@rubycentral/115231365858771329

2025-07-01 15:12:56 UTC

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The key to coding productivity is your Mental Model: your own understanding of how all the software and APIs are interacting.
With AI, you aren’t strengthening the mental model in your head and really that’s what employers are paying you for: your experience just boils down to the knowledge in your head.
For junior developers, AI is candy: no nutritional value at all. Eat your vegetables, read lots of code and develop that mental model.

2025-07-01 15:03:56 UTC

I think people would be surprised at how few productivity tools or utilities I use as a programmer. I have only two tips to improve your coding productivity:
- read lots of code, especially your dependencies. Being curious will teach you the entire app stack.
- write lots of tests. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is still the best way to design a high quality API.
AI can supercharge productivity in the short term but be careful that you don’t become dependent on it. /1

2025-05-22 19:07:12 UTC

European 👍🏼
Non-profit 😍
No commercial repos ❌
If @npub1fh7…ee83 won't host my commercial repos, I can't use them. I'd be happy to pay for private repos.
https://ruby.social/@katafrakt/114552866803921523

2025-02-14 22:40:06 UTC

Any recommendations for an SSH app for iPad?

2025-01-21 22:44:11 UTC

How are we all feeling about Mr Rails being a full on MAGA Nazi? Now he wants to see the rise of the far right in Europe. Are we ok with him and Tobi controlling most of the Ruby ecosystem? Are we ok with companies sponsoring or attending Rails World?

2024-12-11 23:07:30 UTC

A few times a year I get someone reporting rare and mysterious Timeout::Errors in @npub1pwq…6mkn jobs. I wonder if this is underlying cause:
https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/pull/6543

2024-12-03 23:36:46 UTC

I have yet to see a review of Apple Intelligence with a single valuable usecase. Instead I read things like:
“Unpredictable output”
"Needed to be reviewed anyways”
"Missed something important”
Has anyone found it truly useful?

2024-11-13 21:00:32 UTC

@npub1ul4…5ksf sorry I forgot your request and took off. Find me and I can do that video you wanted!

2024-11-13 18:21:00 UTC

#rubyconf @npub1ul4…5ksf speaking on Lessons Learned Scaling @npub1pwq…6mkn.
https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/113/477/029/510/319/681/original/5e1b24813122d2c2.jpeg

2024-10-11 02:25:14 UTC

I bet every Ruby developer in the world can improve their debugging skills by watching this talk. @npub15hy…zqpa has done some great work on Ruby over the last few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gseo4vdmSjE

2024-09-04 15:38:04 UTC

Kill your Dependencies https://www.mikeperham.com/2016/02/09/kill-your-dependencies/ (re-posting this classic)

2024-09-04 01:51:36 UTC

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Open issue for five years now https://github.com/ruby/digest/issues/10 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-09-04 01:35:21 UTC

Does Ruby plan to add SHA3 to stdlib?

2024-09-04 01:12:03 UTC

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customer and I tracked it down to this issue, thanks https://github.com/mhenrixon/sidekiq-unique-jobs/issues/848

2024-09-03 23:10:39 UTC

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yes and it tries to fall back to CBC if there's a problem loading GCM. Both appear to have problems in fips mode.

2024-09-03 23:04:44 UTC

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I have to build a tiny C program to get this info? It's not available via the openssl CLI tool?

2024-09-03 23:03:42 UTC

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OpenSSL::Cipher.new("aes-256-gcm")
OpenSSL::Cipher.new("aes-256-cbc")
unsupported (Global default library context, Algorithm (AES-256-CBC : 11), Properties ())
lib/sidekiq-ent/encryption.rb:79:in `initialize'

2024-09-03 21:49:17 UTC

Is there documentation about which algorithms and features FIPS mode in OpenSSL allows or disallows? Everything I can find is just super generic with no actual specifics.
For example, when I enable FIPS it refuses to load AES but how can I detect that?
require “openssl”
OpenSSL.fips_mode = true

2024-08-22 04:39:08 UTC

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as long as it doesn’t overtly look like the Sidekiq figure, martial arts poses are fair game.